Partnerships/page/5 news and trends

WEX Teams With Euclid to Bring Agentic AI to Trucking

October 27, 2026
WEX
Meta and Nvidia Team on Better Muse Agents
News // October 27, 2026

Meta has turned to Nvidia for help in expanding its Muse family of AI models. The collaboration will focus on improving inference and training performance amid rising demand for “useful” AI agents, Nvidia said in a Monday (Oct. 26) news release. “AI agents represent a...

American Express Expands Travel Platform With Airbnb Integration
Travel Payments // October 23, 2026

American Express and Airbnb have announced a partnership that will offer eligible American Express U.S. Card Members more choices of places to stay when traveling and additional ways to earn points. With this partnership, eligible U.S. Card Members can book stays with Airbnb through AmexTravel.com or the Amex Travel App and...

LianLian Taps PayPal and Venmo to Speed Up Cross-Border Payouts
Cross-border Payments // October 23, 2026

Cross-border payments firm LianLian Global’s social commerce, marketplace and eCommerce clients can now send payouts to PayPal accounts globally and Venmo accounts in the United States, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release. The capabilities are enabled by LianLian Global’s new partnership...

TD Bank Taps Akoya to Power Secure Open Banking API Access
Partnerships // October 23, 2026

TD Bank U.S. and data network Akoya are collaborating to help financial apps and data providers connect to TD through secure APIs, the companies said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release. The companies will accomplish this by deploying Akoya’s Open Finance Solution (OFS), which...

Interviews & Exclusives
Growing FinTechs Gain Leverage Over Their Banking Partners

October 16, 2026
As FinTechs scale, they bring banks more deposits, loans, transactions and fees while gaining more choice over which institutions provide the funding and infrastructure behind them. Upgrade facilitated more than $53 billion in credit through a model built with banks and loan buyers when it applied this week to establish its own bank, PYMNTS reported […]

Credit Unions Could Land More FinTech Partners by Simplifying Onboarding

October 14, 2026
A FinTech that wants to sell to 10 credit unions can face 10 separate onboarding processes. For a market made up of thousands of individual institutions, that repetition can affect...

PhonePe and Revolut Test the Price of Going Global

October 01, 2026
Digital platforms spread technology and product development across millions of customers, a model that makes adding another market attractive. However, international expansion brings more local infrastructure with it: licenses, regulated...

Revolut, Ramp and Adyen Turn Payments Into Bigger Corporate Roles

September 11, 2026
FinTechs are finding more growth in large corporate relationships, whether by winning larger customers or handling more of the financial activity of companies they already serve. Revolut, for example, is...

Quick Reads
WEX Teams With Euclid to Bring Agentic AI to Trucking

October 27, 2026
Payments solutions provider WEX teamed with Euclid AI, a provider of agentic artificial intelligence solutions for the trucking industry, according to a Tuesday (Oct 27) press release. The collaboration is designed to bring AI agents to WEX’s over-the-road (OTR) customers to help them save time and money, the release said. “Our customers are looking for […]

Meta and Nvidia Team on Better Muse Agents

October 27, 2026
Meta has turned to Nvidia for help in expanding its Muse family of AI models. The collaboration will focus on improving inference and training performance amid rising demand for “useful”...

American Express Expands Travel Platform With Airbnb Integration

October 23, 2026
American Express and Airbnb have announced a partnership that will offer eligible American Express U.S. Card Members more choices of places to stay when traveling and additional ways to earn points. With...

LianLian Taps PayPal and Venmo to Speed Up Cross-Border Payouts

October 23, 2026
Cross-border payments firm LianLian Global’s social commerce, marketplace and eCommerce clients can now send payouts to PayPal accounts globally and Venmo accounts in the United States, the company said in...